Plenary sessionsHervé Adami (Atilf, Nancy) : Adults with language insecurity and their relationship with language (bionote and final title to be announced)
Karën Fort (Loria, Metz-Nancy) Language resources and ethics for NLP Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lorraine, Karën Fort has been conducting her research since 2019 as part of the Sémagramme team at LORIA. Her main area of interest is the ethics of natural language processing (NLP), in which she is a pioneer. In addition to her work on stereotypical biases (Ducel et al., 2024), she seeks to develop an ethical vision using NLP techniques for NLP. Academic website: https://members.loria.fr/KFort/ Judith Kormos(Lancaster University) : Inclusive assessment for neurodiverse test-takers in digital tests of second language proficiency Judit Kormos is a Professor in Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on the cognitive processes involved in learning and using additional languages. She has published widely on the effect of dyslexia on learning additional languages including the book The Second Language Acquisition Process of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (Routledge, 2017). She is also the author of several research papers that have investigated the accessibility of language tests for young learners. She was a key partner in the EU-sponsored Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language and the Comics for Inclusive Language Teaching projects both of which won the British Council’s ELTon award. She was the lead educator of the Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching massive open online learning course offered by FutureLearn and has run teacher education workshops and webinars on inclusive language teaching in a large variety of international contexts.
Fourth plenary talk : to be announced |
